Showing papers in "Social Science & Medicine in 1967"

TL;DR: An analysis of all first admissions to hospitals and out-patient clinics of the Mental Health Department, Victoria, Australia, revealed that some psychiatric disorders occured much more frequently in non-British immigrants, especially in those from Eastern Europe, than in Britons and Australian-born.

TL;DR: The effects of a cystic-fibrotic child upon the personalities of family members, intra-familial role functioning, and family-community relationships are described and discussed in relationship to the findings of other studies of chronic and terminal childhood illness and related areas of investigation.

TL;DR: Mothers apply a selective censorship on each occasion, separate the reportable data and suppress the others, affected by the norms of medical relevance and social desirability as well as the time-related variations in actual morbidity.

TL;DR: It is shown that rates of attendance at prenatal, postpartum and family planning clinics are associated with a variety of patients' background characteristics such as age, number of living children, and years of school completed.

TL;DR: In this article, a questionnaire was sent out to 92 diplome diplomes, professionnels of la sante publique, des Etats Unis and du Canada, tous des volontaires.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the social relations of a symptom by tracing detailed connections between disorders of individual function and the social setting and found that if we would unravel the association of a complex variable such as social class with one symptom, we might hope to reduce broad relationships to more specific ones.

TL;DR: This paper found that children instructed in English to draw a fruit-tree, tended to draw introduced trees, especially the apple and the bush banana, when the corresponding instruction was given in the vernacular.

TL;DR: In this paper, cultural inertia theory was used to identify moral, mental, and psyche explanations for mental illness, and a battery of items were subjected to factor analysis and the resulting factors, in order of public preferences are (1) Kinship causes, (2) Mental Causes, (3) Moral Symptoms, (4) Aggressive-Unstable Personality Symptoms,(5) Mental Symptoms, and (6) Moral Causes).

TL;DR: A survey of people living alone in a Ganda rural community uncovered some difficult medico-social problems, where the social security of the extended family unit found in other parts of Africa was lacking.

TL;DR: Diet and activity patterns of Western industrial societies, as well as their increased latitude for social mobility and the striving behavior this fosters, might lead by various mechanisms to a biochemical environment in the blood stream which accelerates atherosclerosis, facilities occlusion of coronary arteries, impairs blood supply to heart muscle, and makes arrhythmias and death more likely.

TL;DR: It is concluded that group images originating in the larger social system, by providing bases for normative comparisons as indicated, also affect reported psychiatric incidence, treatment and response just as do developments in physical medicine.

TL;DR: This study explored the concomitance of therapists' liking and sympathy for their patients with the patients' socio-economic background, psychiatric diagnosis, ratings of pathology, prognosis, treatment, and outcome.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors test hypotheses derived from a social context theory of psychopathology and find that therapeutic improvement is most likely when elements in the patient and his social network are both congruent and directed towards improvement.

TL;DR: There is no evidence to support the contention that cultural closeness increases the physician's willingness to ‘provide’ for catharsis, and a revision of the originally proposed hypothesis that physicians in urban practices will be under greater professional, colleagual scrutiny and will therefore be more likely than their rural counterparts to conform to norms of the profession.

TL;DR: In this paper, two activity systems are compared: that of psychotherapy, where resident's interaction with the patient is an isolated dyadic relationship; and the action system of the ward, where the resident deals with the patients in the presence of other staff.

TL;DR: From a sociological point of view they represent an extreme case of failure to make the transition from adolescence to adulthood, and show a marked apparent fatigue in that they seem unable to mobilize any pragmatic system of action.

TL;DR: In general the data are consistent with the pattern reported in the literature and a number of factors which help make the findings comprehensible.

TL;DR: For a random sample of 1002 patients, the number of admissions was related to personal and social characteristics, prehospital services, admission experiences, inhospital services, and patient movement, and changes were found to be associated with an increase in number of admission.

TL;DR: Zusammenfassung Veraltete Vorstellungen uber die Attribute der Manlichkeit und des Frauentums werden in der Psychotherapie nach immer zur Zielsetzung verwendet and verhindern Behandlungserfolg.